Real Life, Music, Television is a trilogy of music videos which examine the hyper-self-consciousness of adolescents. The images from "Performance" are derived from found footage of an 8th grade talent show and are combined with a list of gender-specific transformative sexual memories from the age of 4-18. "Ladies, There's a Space You Can't Go" is a deconstruction and a distortion of an episode of Sally Jesse Raphael titled "My Daughter Dresses Like A Hooker." "Talent Show" is derived from the same found footage as "Performance." The young boys lip-synch to a bubble gum rock song as they attempt to publicly assert their new-found sexual power.
Laura Parnes
Director
Teen Spirit60%
Michael Jackson: Dangerous - The Short Films82%
Grease Live70%
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls61%
Drumline69%
Rags73%
The Cheetah Girls61%
Ghosts81%
Madonna: Truth or Dare62%
Flora and Son69%
Cover Girl64%
The Nowhere Inn58%
Britney: For the Record74%
Pitch Perfect73%
Glee: The Concert Movie73%
Whitney73%
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody70%
High School Musical65%
Matangi / Maya / M.I.A.77%
Begin Again72%
